20/08/2017 BBC Weekend News

Police in Spain investigating the terror attacks

that claimed 14 lives have said the've seized more

that claimed 14 lives have said they've seized more

than 120 gas canisters which the extremists had planned

where an explosion took place the day before a van drove into

The father of two of the attackers has told the BBC he blames the Imam

at their local mosque for their radicalisation.

Our correspondent Wyre Davies reports from the town of Rippol,

where most of the men had been living.

The Corinthian mountain town of Rippol, were eight of those involved

with the attacks in Barcelona came from. In this town of just 10,000

people, investigators are asking if this man, Abdelbaki Es Satty, imam

of the local mosque, was involved in directing those attacks. One theory

being looked into is that the imam was killed in an explosion which

destroyed a bomb factory in the town of Alcanar last Wednesday, prompting

others to carry out the attacks in Barcelona. Today, police said they

found 120 gas canisters at the destroyed house, which they think

may have been intended to make a massive bomb. The focus of this

investigation is now very much on the imam, Abdelbaki Es Satty.

This is the tiny flat in the town where he lived,

Anything that was in here has been taken away.

Now, according to people at the mosque, he left two months

ago on an extended trip to Morocco, but we know from his flatmate here,

who doesn't want to be filmed, and from other people,

that he was here as recently as last Tuesday, when he suddenly left.

All that's left here is his small Koran and his empty bedroom. This

morning I spoke to the devastated father of two of the attackers. He

blames the imam for radicalising his sons and the others.

TRANSLATION: I've lost my two sons. I can't forgive them for what

they've done, but they've left me and their mother with nothing. What

happened to my boys? Police across the region are still hunting for the

main suspect, who is thought to have driven the van that killed so many

people in Barcelona. This morning, the king and queen of Spain lead in

Barcelona's they must Sagrada Familia Cathedral. People are trying

to come together to support the families of the killed and injured.

Live now to our correspondent, James Reynolds, who's in Barcelona.

Police have been speaking about what they know about the wider plot. Yes,

the Catalan police have been giving a number of details. They suggest

that the wider plot had been planned for about six months and involved a

group of around 12 people. Their plan, according to the police, was

to carry out three separate van attacks against targets here in

Catalonia. We don't know which targets those are. Police have been

getting more information. They say they know who the driver was who

carried out the attack in Barcelona, but they haven't disclosed the name

of that suspect. The authorities are also continuing to provide care and

support to the victims and to the families. There are many people who

are still in hospital and there is still no word on the condition of

the seven-year-old British- Australian boy who was injured.

Finland has observed a minute of silence this morning

for the victims of a stabbing attack in the city of Turku

Friday's stabbing is being investigated as the country's

A British paramedic, who was on holiday in the city,

has denied being a hero after being injured as he tried

He stood up, he ran away, I ran after him a couple of metres.

He didn't say anything and then he ran away and I looked back

So I ran there immediately, straight to her.

Companies selling and arranging pension plans are to be banned

from making unsolicited phone calls, and sending emails and text messages

Companies selling and arranging pension plans are to be banned

from making unsolicited phone calls, and sending emails and text messages

The Government says it's trying to tackle pension scams

after fraudsters tricked elderly savers out of nearly ?5 million

in the first five months of this year.

Here's our Business Correspondent, Joe Lynam.

Chas Drew lives in the Forest of Dean.

He invested his retirement savings into a fund which did not

The company has gone bust and he does

not know how much of his money he will ever get back.

think, how could you have been sucked in?

What I am doing is managing to cash in one

of the investments, the

smaller one, but in little bits, which is giving me an income.

Since the restrictions on how we invest

our pension savings were lifted three years

ago, allowing people to

spend their savings as they wished, 3,000 people have been defrauded by

an average of ?15,000, much of that arose from cold calls from bogus

?43 million worth of pensioners' funds were scammed since

It's preying on your parents, my parents, on the elderly

and vulnerable, and we want to stop it.

What the government wants to do is make it

illegal for companies to

call you up cold to talk about pensions without prior permission.

And even if you do give the permission,

established company with regular, up-to-date accounts, so you cannot

But this ban on cold calls cannot and will not apply to foreign

Age UK welcomes the clamp-down on cold calls, but says

Their message is - if in doubt, hang up.

A group of pro-Brexit economists have said removing all trade tariffs

and barriers would boost the economy by ?135 billion.

Sir Patrick Minford from Economists for Free Trade says eliminating

tariffs, either within free trade deals or unilaterally

after the UK left the EU, would deliver huge gains.

Other economists say cutting barriers sets off

The Iraqi army has begun an offensive to retake the last

major city in the country held by the Islamic State group.

Tal Afar is a key strategic bastion, close to the border with Syria

and around 50 miles west of Mosul, which was recaptured

Iraq's Prime Minister said IS fighters had a choice

The Prime Minister of Bangladesh is visiting the northern half of the

country to assess damage caused by the worst flooding in almost 13

years. The floods in Nepal,

Bangladesh and India are thought to have killed about 500 people

and are expected to worsen. According to the Red Cross

in Bangladesh alone five million people have been affected,

with over 300,000 displaced. Sanjoy Majumder reports

from Bangladesh. Flooding on a scale that Bangladesh

has not seen in decades. Water where once roads existed,

entire villages washed away. People trying to salvage

what little can be retrieved. In this case, a mattress

floating in the water. When you have nothing left, every

little possession is invaluable. He tells me how the water rose

without warning at night, TRANSLATION: I saved my brother

and his wife and came back to get some clothes and blankets,

but by then it was too There's now a sense of desperation

among the survivors. Aid workers bringing supplies

of fresh water are soon surrounded, but there is simply not enough to go

around, leaving behind angry Those who were lucky

enough to escape have This one is built on a narrow

embankment surrounded by water. There are 2,000 people living

here along with cattle and the problem is, with most

of their homes washed away, With so much water around and people

squeezed into every inch of dry land, there's now a fear that

disease from contaminated water could spread rapidly

among the survivors. You can see more on all of today's

stories on the BBC News Channel. The next news on BBC One

is at 5.40pm this evening.